Tag Archives: Reviews
Preview: MIT Technology Review – September 2024
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – August 19, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (August 17, 2024): The latest issue features..
Powell Will Set the Stage for Rate Cuts at Jackson Hole. What to Expect.
The chair will lay the groundwork for the Fed’s next phase of monetary policy. It will be the highest-stakes event for the economy and markets this fall.
Retirees Face Sticker Shock on Healthcare Costs if They Don’t Prepare
A 65-year-old retiring today can expect to spend an average of $165,000 in healthcare expenses throughout retirement, up nearly 5% from last year, according to Fidelity.
Harris Is Veering Away From Econ 101. It Makes Political Sense.
The vice president’s speech in Raleigh puts her squarely to the left of President Joe Biden, Barron’s ideas editor writes.
Jackson Hole Agenda Speaks to the Economy’s Unusual Strength
Economists and policy makers at the Federal Reserve symposium will probe the effectiveness and transmission of monetary policy, which took unorthodox turns in the past 15 years.
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – Sept 2024
Arresting scenes
On John Constable’s The Hay Wain & the foundations of the West.
We write as The New Criterion’s annual period of aestivation enters its home stretch. The cicadas are buzzing, the days are noticeably shorter, and the leaves—some of them—are already edged with brown. Certain summers feature quiet expanses of lazy days. This one was different. In July, Donald Trump, except for the tip of his right ear, dodged a would-be assassin’s bullet; Joe Biden dropped (or, we now know, was pushed) out of the 2024 presidential race but, as of this writing, remains president; Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president, stepped into the vacancy and magically became the new candidate for president, choosing the Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
Ideas & Research: Harvard Magazine September 2024
HARVARD MAGAZINE (August 15, 2024): The latest Academic Freedom and Free Speech – Contendin means, and meanings…
Academic Freedom and Free Speech
Robert Post explains how they differ—and why it matters, especially now by Lincoln Caplan
Climate Change’s Crippling Costs
The impact on global GDP is likely six times greater than previously estimated.
In Search of the Social Microbiome
The microbiome may be socially exchanged, modulating both health and metabolism.
The Goodness of Being Together
Why social interactions are as vital as food and water by Erin O’Donnell
Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 16, 2024
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The Economist Magazine – August 17, 2024 Preview
Our presidential-election forecast model
We relaunch our presidential-election model for a transformed race
New nuclear threats
The superpower faces more adversaries, new technologies and less-confident allies
What Ukraine can gain in Kursk
The country’s forces should be careful not to overreach
Does the brain learn like AI?
The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them
Politics: The Guardian Weekly – August 16, 2024
The Guardian Weekly (August 15, 2024) – The new issue features Has mass tourism gone too far? – Why holiday hotspots have had enough. Plus: America’s Kamala and Tim show
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Spotlight | On the road: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz re-energise Democrats
The US vice-president and her running mate have hit the ground running in their campaign for the White House. Can they keep the momentum going, asks Lauren Gambino.
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Technology | The fragile world of underwater internet cables
Deep-sea wires are the veins of the modern world. What if something were to happen to them? Jonathan Yerushalmy investigates.
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Feature | Beautiful, bruising and complex female friendships
Ahead of her new book examining women’s friendships, the Observer’s Rachel Cooke reflects on two pivotal ones of her own, as well as some notable literary attachments.
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Opinion | The Olympics showed France’s far right what true patriotism is all about
Despite a febrile political backdrop, the Paris Games reminded a nation of what it means to be proud of one’s country, says French sports writer Philippe Auclair.
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Culture | The second act of Sam Neill
He is one of the world’s most famous actors, but the New Zealander – whose cancer is thankfully in remission – can still go to Starbucks without anyone recognising him, finds Zoe Williams.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 16, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (August 14, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Guy vs the Spies’ – Robert Cecil’s secret intelligence network; The new Cold War; On annihilation; What anxiety means; G.K. Chesterton’s Notting Hill…
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Summer 2024
Rhian Sasseen swipes right on behalf of a fictional porn addict;
Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech;
Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill;
and Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones.
Gossip as a Literary Genre, or Gossip as “L’Écriture feminine”?
Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
